Manila, Feb. 27 -- The Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) has confiscated 21,000 liters of illegal diesel petroleum products worth PHP1.26 million in Oriental Mindoro province.

In a statement on Thursday, CIDG chief Maj. Gen. Nicolas Torre III said the suspect, identified as Rommel, was caught distributing and trading the petroleum products in Barangay Del Pilar, Naujan town on Feb. 21.

Torre said the CIDG Oriental Mindoro Provincial Field Unit agents conducted the operations that resulted in the arrest of the suspect.

He said charges are being readied against the suspect for violating Batas Pambansa 33 (Act defining and penalizing certain prohibiting acts inimical to the public interest and national security) and Republ...